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Atlanta continues its commitment to ensuring affordable housing supply in the city, announcing the most recent in a series of funded programs earlier this month.

January 14 - The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

YIMBY, pro-development, politics are gaining support and attention in New York City at an opportune moment in the city's planning history.

January 14 - The Real Deal

Two new mandatory topic areas will be required of AICP members to maintain professional certification.

January 13 - American Planning Association

The downtown freeway expansion will displace thousands of housed and unhoused residents and hundreds of small businesses.

January 13 - Houston Press

The New River Gorge in West Virginia, one of the most popular recreation areas in the United States, will be the newest national park thanks to the stimulus package approved by the federal government in December 2020.

January 13 - Outside

The city of Pasadena, known for innovative planning approaches to parking and transit-oriented development, is in a pitched battle with regional authorities over how much housing to build in the coming decade.

January 13 - Pasadena News

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Checking in with the numerous risks in the housing market as the economic fallout of the pandemic as approaches it approaches its second year.

January 13 - James Brasuell

A $435 billion "economic justice" bill proposed by Democrats in the U.S. Senate includes $10 billion for projects that remove highways and build community-oriented assets in their place.

January 13 - Streetsblog USA

Controversy erupts in Toronto after the TTC informed transit employees that it isn't safe to carpool to work…driving people around on transit.

January 13 - Toronto Star

New York City's groundbreaking Mandatory Inclusionary Housing Program will turn five years old in March. While some call for the program to be eliminated, others defend it.

January 13 - City Limits

LGBTQ elders are more likely than their age-peers to have experienced discrimination, leaving them more likely to be poor and have chronic health problems. LGBTQ-friendly senior housing aims to provide a safe and supportive place to age.

January 12 - Shelterforce Magazine

On January 8, the U.S. Department of Transportation released "Ensuring American Leadership in Automated Vehicle Technologies: Automated Vehicles 4.0 (AV 4.0)." On January 11, it followed up with the Automated Vehicles Comprehensive Plan (AVCP).

January 12 - U.S. Department Of Transportation

The decrease in U.S. economic activity during the pandemic year of 2020 reduced the country's greenhouse gas emissions by 10.3 percent.

January 12 - Rhodium Group

Land values and construction costs have increased since voters approved the Sound Transit 3 ballot initiative.

January 12 - The Seattle Times

Almost a year into the devastating effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Urban Institute assesses what we've learned about transportation equity—and what these lessons mean for the future.

January 12 - Urban Institute

Two industry consulting firms released new reports on the best-selling master-planned communities in the United States.

January 12 - RCLCO

The Congress for the New Urbanism will begin the search for a new CEO after Lynn Richards announces plans to depart.

January 12 - CNU Public Square

The High Line has a chance to add the role of civic connector to its list of plaudits.

January 12 - The New York Times

A recent study of preschoolers shows that small children are intuitive urban planners—if anyone ever listens.

January 11 - The Conversation

One of two architecture critics working at major daily newspapers to receive the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism, Blair Kamin announced his retirement last week via Twitter.

January 11 - Blair Kamin via Twitter